Damian Georgino is Partner at Womble Bond Dickinson. Womble Bond Dickinson is a leading law firm that provides support to organizations operating within the fast-moving, challenging, and dynamic energy, water, and food nexus.

That was a hell of a ride. What am I talking about? Well, this exploration of the Water Crisis in America. I know, to some of you, it may sound like the definition of a First-World problem. Yet, when you look at the challenges that the wealthiest country on earth faces when it comes to water, you get a better sense of the global water riddle we have to solve. 

I hope that with the twenty stops on that journey, we started in September, you got to grasp that beyond the real and daunting challenges, there's also an array of solutions. That it's not a lost battle at all and that we can win it, assuming we align ourselves, put all the pieces of the jigsaw in place and get the ball rolling at all levels. 

Now I get it as well that it can be challenging to connect so many dots - here's why I have a special offer for you. If you go to dww.show/water-crisis-in-america you can download a 104 pages cartoon that synthesizes what all my New York guests have told us over the past weeks, combined with the best insights from previous guests and literature review, with a bit of my own brain juice to do the jointing. 

104 pages of a simple, down-to-earth cartoon that's taken me 6 months to write, design and compile. 104 pages where you'll find all the protagonists you've heard on that microphone, carefully pictured in a cartoon shape by my talented illustrator.

What do I ask you in exchange of that download? Well, nothing. It's free. Forever. What's the catch? Well, I hope you'll trust me if I tell you that there is absolutely no catch. I simply want that knowledge to go to as many people as possible!

Now, if you want to help me in this endeavor, you can share the cartoon with whoever you think shall read it! And if you have a website, internet is about linking, so you could consider linking to the cartoon page from your resources section, your blog, or your media page. Whatever suits you suits me and brings us one step forward!

Finally, if you don't like reading and prefer to listen to or watch the content of the cartoon, I've already released chapter one as a podcast on this podcast channel and as a video on my youtube channel - go check it out; three more are in the making, my one-man-band is spinning its wheels to make it happen as fast as possible. 

That being said, we have a last leg in our interview journey to air today: that's my conversation with Damian. I swear you'll swiftly get why I thought it would be the proper one to close the series: we're revisiting some of themes we already covered, like water fit for purpose or distributed approaches, but we're also framing it by looking at it from a different angle.

Sure, residential water is a trouble, and we're rightfully concerned about getting water of sometimes questionable quality. But all the industrial goods and food we rely on every day also need water, and actually a lot more. So, by the volumes, different parts of the water cake may request more of our attention, and Damian will remind us of that!

I've already been exceptionally long with this intro, so I'll leave the floor to Damian, and I'll see you on the other side!

Why bother with Residential Water Struggles? It's an Industry Risk!